The main objective of their marketing activities is to react swiftly: Zara is able to design, produce and deliver the product to the customer in just one month. The main reason for this is that Zara does not forecast the designed clothing. Fabrics and garments are the only materials to be purchased on the basis of forecasts. Their main strength is to capture real-time information on the shop floor and develop designs on the basis of this information: so-called ‘commercial managers’ conceptualize
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fourteen years the exports of the company had grown from Rs. 0.71 million in 1972-73 to Rs. 59.76 million in 1984. Almost 90% of the exports went to USA. It owned no manufacturing facility of any kind. It purchased cotton cloth from six different textile mills and had the cloth dyed and printed. This fabric was then passed on to 138 stitching subcontractors. The company had been expanding the product line over the years and by 1983 it was exporting about one million garments in over one hundred
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Colorfastness refers to the resistance of color to fade or bleed of a dyed or printed textile materials against water, light, rubbing, washing, perspiration etc. to which they are normally exposed in textile manufacturing and in daily use. Colorfastness to Rubbing Colorfastness to rubbing test is designed to determine the degree of color which may be transferred from the surface of a colored fabric to a specify test cloth for rubbing (which could be dry and Wet). Crockmeter is the main equipment
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NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FASHION TECHNOLOGY MUMBAI TEXTILE DESIGN DEPARTMENT DODUMENTATION ON - HERBAL TEXTILES SUBMITTED BY- BHARAT GUPTA M/TD/12/02 SEMESTER- VI CERTIFICATE This is to certify that the following student, Bharat Gupta has carried out the survey and study on “Herbal Textiles” and submitted this document in partial fulfillment of Undergraduate Program in Textile Design in the year 2014. Dr
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Step 1: Planting and Harvesting the Raw Material: Cotton: Most commnly used raw material for fabric in the world 60% of women’s clothing and 75% of men’s clothing contains some cotton. Oxford cloth: It is very popular shirting fabric, particularly for more casual shirts. It’s a bit thicker than what we’d consider “fine” dress shirt fabrics, and has a hearty feel that is both durable and naturally resistant to wrinkles. Oxford cloths can be found in a variety of qualities. Planting and Cultivation:
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- all woven round neck tees, track pants, polos, socks, sweaters - all knits if it stretches, its knits yarn - dhaga loom - machine on which woven fabric are made in 1851, it was handlooms now, there are machine looms only 2 types of textile - knits, woven woven - chiffon, georgette, silk, tusser, tusser silk, silk goergette, denims knits - different types of fabric and different blends; single jersey (can have just cotton, cotton viscose, cotton poly), ribbed (only pearl) leather
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Global Analysis The United States changed the rules concerning quotas on textiles and apparel imports at the beginning of 2005. This long coming transformation has definitely affected more than just the United States. Several countries have had concerns over this new policy. Firms that outsource the manufactures of their textiles apparel could benefit from this policy. These firms now can outsource anywhere due to the quotas being lifted. The firms can choose who to outsource to based
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Material ConneXion Exploration Category of textile material of interest and why I currently live with my dog at school and this past summer in New York City. We take two or three times a day. My dog is only a little more than one year old, but the bottom of his paws is already very rough and the vet said it is quite inevitable if he goes outside frequently. In addition, after every walk I clean his feet twice or three times with paper towels and hand sanitizer, since he comes onto my bed everyday
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Design 2 is a rectangular bed throw which consists of many decorative techniques and components. The back of this bed throw will be made out of different African kente cloths to make a beautiful and colourful patchwork design so that the back and also the front of my throw stands out. I will over lock my bed throw so that the ends have no frays on the sides making it lose its lifelessness. The front of my bed throws background will be made from my own coloured fabric which I shall be dying it blue
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There are a number of techniques for producing nonwoven fabrics like, adhesive bonded, needle punched, thermal bonded, stitch bonded, hydroentangled etc., These fabrics find applications in various field like filtration, geo textiles, interlinings, wipes, garments, medical textile products, as composites in civil engineering etc., Within a very short time a considerable amount of research work has been carried out to have a better understanding of the properties and applications based on the end-use
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